CS552 Course Wiki: Fall 2020 : Course calendar and lecture notes browse

Date	Topic	Reading	Homework assigned
3-Sep	Introduction	Ch 1
8-Sep	Performance + Benchmarks and Amdhal Law	Ch 2.1 - 2.15	HW1
10-Sep	Verilog Tutorial (slides above)	Skim Ch 2.17 and 2.18
15-Sep	Benchmarks and Amdahl Law	See slides and cheat sheet
17-Sep	Arithmetic & Logic	Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6
22-Sep	MIPS ISA	Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6	HW2
24-Sep	Processor (datapath)	Ch 3 and Appendix B.1-B.6
29-Sep	Processor (control path)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10
1-Oct	Processor (pipelining)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10	HW3
6-Oct	Processor (pipeline hazards)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10
8-Oct	Processor (pipeline hazards)	Ch 4.1 - 4.10
13-Oct	Processor (Superscalar)	Skim 4.11 and 4.12
15-Oct	Processor (MIPS R10000)	Ch 1.6 - 1.10	HW4
20-Oct	Modern processors
22-Oct	In class quiz
27-Oct	Cache concepts	no reading
29-Oct	Cache design	Ch 5.1-5.2
3-Nov	Cache design	Ch 5.3
5-Nov	Cache Performance	Ch 5.9
10-Nov	Virtual memory	CH 5.4-5.8	HW5
12-Nov	Main Memory	CH 5.4-5.8
17-Nov	ECC	review ch 5.8
19-Nov	IO	See ECC handout	HW6
24-Nov	No class	Ch 6.1-6.3
26-Nov	No class
1-Dec	Advanced Arithmetic	Ch 6.4-6.5
3-Dec	Parallel processors/shared memory	no reading
8-Dec	No class	no reading
10-Dec	No class	no reading
15-Dec	Cache Demo